Smyer and Moore allegedly met in Redondo Beach while playing basketball, and hired him to shoot Taylor. Moore was reportedly "eager" to murder the mom-to-be so he could build up his reputation as a hitman.

Smyer's conviction took more than 15 years to secure due to a judge declaring a mistrial in 2011. Moore admitted to killing Taylor when he was approached by a cold case detective a decade after her death while he was serving a life sentence for another crime.

He admitted to being hired for the murder when investigators offered to improve his prisons conditions, but he later withdrew his testimony, saying he didn't want to help convict an "innocent person."

However, prosecutors told the jury that Taylor wasn't the first woman Smyer tried to take out. He has two children with a woman named Traci Williamson — and she was attacked by an unknown assailant during each of her pregnancies.

"That relationship had domestic violence written all over it," Deputy District Attorney Danette Meyers said during the trial. "He pleaded with her to have an abortion."

He was found guilty Saturday of second-degree murder in Taylor's killing and first-degree murder in the murder of the fetus, along with two counts of solicitation of murder and one count of conspiracy to commit a crime. He still maintains his innocence and plans on appealing the verdict.

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